On 8/23/05, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
These are some direct quotes from this guy:
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Does it really matter to you that said these things outside wikipedia?
Yes. While Saudi Arabia may be fine with stopping advocates of women's rights at the border, on the theory that they are certain to commit heinous crimes against the social order, I think WP should set a less medieval standard.
Pragmatically, if you pre-ban editors with open biases or goals, they will just make new logins and make the same edits quietly; just as women's advocates do now in Saudi, come to think of it. :-)
Stan
Look, wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy. The ability to edit an article is a privilege, not a right. I'm am not trying to set some sort of precedence (and that would be a horrible precedent indeed), but lets excercise some common sense. This guy has basically admitted on another site that he will put in pro-nazi, anti-jewish POV edits. He has made horrible statements about fellow human beings on the grounds of they having a specific race. Beyond the colour of a persons skin, this man has no respect what so ever for his rights as a person.
Is that really the kind of people we want on wikipedia? To edit is a privilige, not a right.
--gkhan